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                                        <h2>A DIGITAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR COMPUTERS GIVING RAPID RESPONSE AT REMOTE TERMINALS <br>
                                        <span class="date">Oct. 1967 [ Davies06.pdf ]</span></h2>
                                        <p>Continued ...</p>
                                        <p>Initially the work concentrated on these topics (ref. [3] Para. 1, Pg. 128) :</p>
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                                            <li>the development of Davies' novel ideas for the technology of computer networks</li>
                                            <li>the design and construction of a local packet switched network on the NPL site to put these ideas to practical test.</li>
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                                        <p>Davies wrote in his historical note (ref. [1], Para. 5, Pg. 4),</p>
                                        <div class="quotation">“When I became Superintendent of the Division in August 1966 I was able to initiate a programme of research. We decided on a local network in order to test out our ideas for an interface computer ...”
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                        References. 
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                            <li>[1] D W Davies. <a target="_new" href="../archives/Davies06.pdf">A DIGITAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR COMPUTERS GIVING RAPID RESPONSE AT REMOTE TERMINALS</a>, Oct. 1967</li>
                            <li>[2] D W Davies. <a target="_new" href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/DIGITAL_ARCHIVE/NPL/DaviesLetter.html">Letter to Chris Edmondson Yurkanan</a>, Aug. 25 1999</li>
                            <li>[3]Chris Edmondson Yurkanan. <a target="_new" href="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1230819.1230840">SIGCOMM's archaeological journey into networking's past</a>.COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM May 2007/Vol. 50, No. 5</li>
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